Andrew Krivak is the author of four novels: The Bear, a Banff Mountain Book Competition winner, Massachusetts Book Award winner, LibraryReads selection, and National Endowment for the Arts Big Read selection, as well as the freestanding novels of the Dardan Trilogy, which include The Sojourn, a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Chautauqua Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize; The Signal Flame, a Chautauqua Prize finalist; and Like the Appearance of Horses. He is also the author of the poetry collection Ghosts of the Monadnock Wolves and the memoir A Long Retreat: In Search of a Religious Life, as well as the editor of The Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edgar Irving Williams, 1902–1912, which received the Louis L. Martz Prize. He lives with his wife and three children in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire.